Street songs : writers and urban songs and cries, 1800-1925 /

This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the London street-vendor's cry of 'Cherry-ripe!,' as it occurs in poems from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The 'Cries of Londo...

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